Pants for surgery patient

ABSTRACT

The present invention provides pants for a surgery patient including a body including a front part, a rear part, and a crotch part, and waist fixing members provided to the front part and the rear part, respectively, the waist fixing members fixing the body to a patient&#39;s body, in which the crotch part has a cut portion having a reversed “L” shape and including a first cut portion extending in a direction from the front part to the rear part and a second cut portion extending in a direction from one side to a center portion thereof.

CROSS REFERENCE

Applicant claims foreign priority under Paris Convention and 35 U.S.C.§119 to the Korean Patent Application No. 10-2006-0025115, filed Sep.19, 2006 with the Korean Intellectual Property Office.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to pants for a surgery patient, and moreparticularly to pants for a surgery patient, which have a cut portion toallow a tube of a Foley catheter (i.e. urinary catheter) to be placedtherein.

2. Description of the Related Art

When a patient gets a surgical operation under a general anesthetic, apatient is in a state of being incapable of urinating because she/he isunconscious. For this occasion, a Foley catheter (urinary catheter) isneeded. The Foley catheter is connected to the patient's genital organin an aseptic manner for a patient who cannot willfully urinate or apatient undergoing a surgical operation.

When a patient is under general anesthetic, the patient cannot willfullypass his or her urine, and thus the Foley catheter must be used. When apatient is given a general anesthetic or a spinal anesthetic, thepatient might not feel the sensation of urination even when his or herbladder is fully filled with urine, which can lead to rupture of thebladder, hyperpiesia, and cardiovascular accidents such as tachycardia.

Generally, a patient gets a surgical operation while naked in the casein which the operation is performed under general anesthesia. Theoperation performed under the condition such that the patient is nakedcompromises the privacy of a patient. In the case of female patients,the patients may be embarrassed when the patients recover theirconsciousness, even though they do not feel a sense of shame during theoperation.

Trying to perform an operation in the condition under which the patientis wearing underpants in order to prevent the patient from beingembarrassed, it is difficult to connect the Foley catheter to thepatient's genital organ because general underpants are manufacturedwithout taking into consideration the requirement to fit the Foleycatheter.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, Korean Utility ModelRegistration No. 415967 discloses pants having an insertion hole in apredetermined place thereof to allow the Foley catheter to passtherethrough and a technique of using general pants by cutting the pantsduring the operation.

However, it is inconvenient to use known pants and techniques because aFoley catheter is connected to the patient's genital organ in the statein which the Foley catheter has passed through the insertion hole of thepants or because the pants have the insertion hole (cut portion) at aside of the pants, which makes it difficult to fit the Foley catheter.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention aims to solve the above-mentioned problems, andprovides pants for a surgery patient having a cut portion which allows aFoley catheter to be connected to a patient's genital organ so as toeasily pass therethrough.

According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided pants for asurgery patient including a body including a front part, a rear part,and a crotch part, and waist fixing members provided to the front partand the rear part, respectively, the waist fixing members fixing thebody to a patient's body, the crotch part having a cut portion having areversed “L” shape and including a first cut portion extending in adirection from the front part to the rear part and a second cut portionextending in a direction from a side to a center portion thereof.

In the pants, it is preferable that the pants further include a firstdetachable member which can be attached to and detached from the bodyand provided near the second cut portion of the cut portion having areversed “L” shape, and a second detachable member which can be coupledto the first detachable member and provided near the second cut portion.

In the pants, it is preferable that the first and second detachablemembers be a combination of hook and loop tapes, a combination ofbuttons and button-holes, or a combination of hooks and hook eyes.

According to another aspect of the invention, there is provided pantsfor a surgery patient including a body including a front part, a rearpart, and a crotch part, and a waist fixing member for fixing the bodyto a patient's waist, in which the crotch part has a cut portion havinga “T” shape, and including a third cut portion extending in a directionfrom the front part to the rear part and a fourth cut portion extendingin a side-to-side direction thereof.

In the pants, it is preferable that the pants further include a thirddetachable member which can be attached to and detached from the bodyand which is provided to a left side portion of the crotch part,precisely, near the fourth cut portion, a fourth detachable member whichcan be attached to and detached from the body and which is provided to aright side portion of the crotch part, precisely, near the fourth cutportion, and a fifth detachable member provided near the fourth cutportion and coupled to both the third detachable member and the fourthdetachable member.

In the pants, it is preferable that the third detachable member, thefourth detachable member, and the fifth detachable member be acombination of hook and loop tapes, a combination of buttons andbutton-holes, or a combination of hooks and hook eyes.

According to further aspect of the invention, there is provided pantsfor a surgery patient including a body including a front part, a rearpart, and a crotch part, and a waist fixing member for fixing the bodyto a patient's waist, in which the crotch part has a cut portion havinga “U” shape, and including a fifth cut portion extending in a directionfrom the front part to the rear part and a sixth cut portion and aseventh cut portion extending from a side to a center portion thereof.

In the pants, it is preferable that the pants further include a sixthdetachable member and a seventh detachable member, which can be attachedto and detached from the crotch part near the sixth cut portion and theseventh cut portion, respectively, and an eighth detachable member and aninth detachable member coupled to the sixth detachable member and theseventh detachable member, respectively.

In the pants, it is preferable that the seventh detachable member, theeighth detachable member, and the ninth detachable member be acombination of hoop and loop tapes, a combination of buttons andbutton-holes, or a combination of hooks and hook eyes.

In the pants, it is preferable that the fixing members be strings, hoopand loop tapes, buttons and button-holes, or hooks and hook eyes.

In the pants, it is preferable that the pants be made of unwoven fabric,paper, or woven fabric such as cotton fabric.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above and other features and advantages of the present inventionwill be more clearly understood from the following detailed descriptionwhen taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIGS. 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D are perspective views illustrating a detailedstructure of pants for a surgery patient according to a firstembodiment;

FIG. 2A and 2B are perspective views illustrating a detailed structureof pants for a surgery patient according to a second embodiment;

FIG. 3A and 3B are perspective views illustrating a detailed structureof pants for a surgery patient according to a third embodiment;

FIGS. 4A, 4B, 4C and 4D are perspective views illustrating a detailedstructure of pants for a surgery patient according to a fourthembodiment;

FIG. 5A and 5B are perspective views illustrating a detailed structureof pants for a surgery patient according to a fifth embodiment;

FIG. 6A and 6B are perspective views illustrating a detailed structureof pants for a surgery patient according to a sixth embodiment; and

FIGS. 7A and 7B are perspective views illustrating a detailed structureof pants for a surgery patient according to a seventh embodiment.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the invention will be describedin detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIGS. 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D are perspective views illustrating a detailedstructure of pants for a surgery patient according to a firstembodiment.

As shown in FIGS. 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D, the pants for a surgery patient 100according to the first embodiment include a body 10 comprised of a frontpart 110, a rear part 120, and a crotch part 130 provided between thefront part 110 and the rear part 120. The pants 100 further includewaist fixing members 141 and 142 which fix the body 10 to the waist of apatient.

The front part 110 and the rear part 120 are provided in a separatedform, so that the pants can be easily put on even a patient who cannotmove. When the pants 100 are worn by a patient, the front part 110 andthe rear part 120 of the pants 100 are fixed to the patient's body usingthe waist fixing members 141 and 142. The waist fixing members 141 and142 are coupled to each other using a hoop-and-loop tape couplingmanner, for example, a hook-and-loop fastener, such as Velcro tape.Alternatively, the waist fixing members 141 and 142, provided to thefront part 110 and the rear part 120, respectively, may be coupled toeach other in a manner of tying a string, in a push-button manner, or ahook-and-eye manner.

The pants 100 for a surgery patient according to the first embodimenthave a reversed “L”-shaped cut portion 150 at the crotch part 130 inorder to allow the Foley catheter to be easily placed thereon. The cutportion 150 is comprised of a first cut portion 151 extending in adirection from the front part 110 to the rear part 120 and a second cutportion 152 extending from the side to the center of the crotch part130.

A first detachable member 153, which can be attached to and detachedfrom the body 10, is provided around the second cut portion 152, and asecond detachable member 154 coupled to the first detachable member 153is also provided around the second cut portion 152. The first detachablemember 153 and the second detachable member 154 form a set, and have ahoop-and-loop tape structure so that they can be repeatedly coupled toand decoupled from each other many times.

The pants 100 have the cut portion 150 having a reversed “L” shapecomposed of the first cut portion 51 and the second cut portion 152.Accordingly, with this structure of the pants 100, it is possible toprevent the patient's genital organ from being visible and to allow theFoley catheter to be easily installed.

Hereinafter, the process of using the pants 100 for a surgery patientaccording to the first embodiment will be described in greater detail.First, the first detachable member 153 is detached from the seconddetachable member 154. Next, the Foley catheter is connected to thepatient's genital organ and is placed at the cut portion 150 having areversed “L” shape. Next, the first detachable member 153 is attached tothe second detachable member 154. Finally, the body 10 of the pants 100is fixed to the patient's body using the waist fixing members 141 and142.

As described above, the pants 100 according to the first embodiment havethe cut portion 150 having a reversed “L” shape at the crotch part 130,the cut portion 150 being comprised of the first cut portion 151,extending in the direction from the front part 110 to the rear part 120,and the second cut portion 152. Accordingly, it is possible to easilyand freely install the Foley catheter at the desired position regardlessof the patient's sex, i.e the position of the genital organs. Once theFoley catheter is placed at the first cut portion 151, the pants can beeasily put on or taken off from a patient without disconnecting the tubeof the Foley catheter from the patient's genital organ by attachment anddetachment of the first detachable member 153 to or from the seconddetachable member 154.

FIG. 2A, 2B and FIG. 3A, 3B are perspective views illustrating thedetailed structure of pants for a surgery patient according to a secondembodiment and a third embodiment, respectively.

With reference to FIG. 2A and 2B, the pants 200 for a surgery patientaccording to the second embodiment have a first detachable member 155which can be attached to and detached from the body of the pants 200 andwhich is provided around a second cut portion 152, and a seconddetachable member 156 which is attached to or detached from the firstdetachable member 155 and is provided around the second cut portion 152.The first detachable member 155 and the second detachable member 156form a set and are in a form of a button and a button-hole,respectively, so that the first and second detachable members 155 and156 can be freely attached to and detached from each other.

With reference to FIG. 3A and 3B, the pants 300 for a surgery patientaccording to the third embodiment have a cut portion 150 having areversed “L” shape, a first detachable member 157 which is providedaround a second cut portion 152 of the cut portion 150 and which can beattached to and detached from the body of the pants 300, and a seconddetachable member 158 which is provided around the second cut portion152 and which can be attached to or detached from the first detachablemember 157. The first detachable member 157 and the second detachablemember 158 form a set, and are in the form of a hook and a hook eye,respectively, so that the first detachable member 157 and the detachablemember 158 can be coupled to or decoupled from each other.

FIGS. 4A, 4B, 4C and 4D shows the detailed structure of pants for asurgery patient according to the fourth embodiment.

With reference to these figures, the pants 400 according to the fourthembodiment include a body 40 comprised of a front part 410, a rear part420, and a crotch part 430. The pants 400 further include waist fixingmembers 441 and 442.

The waist fixing members 441 and 442 are a hoop-and-loop tape,respectively. Alternatively, the waist fixing members 441 and 442 may bestrings. Further alternatively, the waist fixing members 441 and 442 maybe a button and a button-hole, respectively. Still furtheralternatively, the waist fixing members 441 and 442 may be a hook and ahook eye.

The pants 400 according to the fourth embodiment have a cut portion 450having a “T” shape at the crotch part 430 so that the Foley catheter canbe placed at the cut portion 450 of the crotch part 420. The “T”-shapedcut portion 450 is composed of a third cut portion 451 extending in adirection from the front part 410 to the rear part 420, and a fourth cutportion 452 extending in the lateral direction of the crotch part 430.

A third detachable member 453 is provided to the body of the pants 400near the fourth cut portion 452, precisely, on the left side of thecrotch part 430 with respect to the fourth cut portion 452. A fourthdetachable member 454 is provided to the body 40 of the pants 400 nearthe fourth cut portion 452, precisely, on the right side of the crotchpart 430 with respect to the fourth cut portion 452. A fifth detachablemember 455 is provide to the body of the pants 400 near the fourth cutportion 452 and is coupled to both the third detachable member 453 andthe fourth detachable member 454. The third, fourth, and fifthdetachable members 453, 454, and 455 form a set, and can be coupled toor decoupled from each other many times because they are made ofhoop-and-loop tapes.

As described above, the pants 400 according to the fourth embodiment hasthe “T”-shaped cut portion 450, composed of the third cut portion 451extending in a direction from the front part 410 to the rear part 420,and the fourth cut portion 452 extending in a direction perpendicular tothe third cut portion 451. Accordingly, the pants 400 can prevent thepatient's genital organ from being visible and can allow the Foleycatheter to be freely and easily fitted regardless of the patient's sex,that is, the difference in the position of the patient's genital organ.

Hereinafter, the use of the pants 400 according to the fourth embodimentwill be described. First, the third detachable member 453 and the fourthdetachable member 454 are detached from the fifth detachable member 455.A tube of the Foley catheter is connected to the patient's genital organand the Foley catheter is placed at the “T”-shaped cut portion 450.Next, the third detachable member 453 and the fourth detachable member454 are attached to the fifth detachable member 455, and then the body40 of the pants 400 is fixed to the patient's body using the waistfixing members 441 and 442.

Other elements and operations in this embodiment are the same as in thefirst embodiment, except for the above-mentioned elements andoperations.

FIG. 5A and 5B shows the detailed structure of pants for a surgerypatient according to the fifth embodiment, and FIG. 6A and 6B shows thedetailed structure of pants for a surgery patient according to the sixthembodiment.

With reference to FIG. 5A and 5B, the pants 500 according to the fifthembodiment have a third detachable member 456 provided to the left sideportion of the crotch part 430 with respect to a fourth cut portion 452,precisely, near the fourth cut portion 452, and have a fourth detachablemember 457 provided to the right side portion of the crotch part withrespect to the fourth cut portion 452, precisely, near the fourth cutportion 452. The pants 500 further include a fifth detachable member 458provided near the fourth cut portion 452 and coupled to both the thirdand fourth detachable members 456 and 457. The third, fourth, and fifthdetachable members 456, 457, and 458 form a set, and they are structuredin a form of buttons and button holes so that they can be coupled to anddecoupled from each other.

With reference to FIG. 6A and 6B, the pants 600 according to the sixthembodiment have a third detachable member 461 provided to the left sideportion of the crotch part 430 with respect to a fourth cut portion 452,precisely, near the fourth cut portion 452, and have a fourth detachablemember 462 provided to the right side portion of the crotch part withrespect to the fourth cut portion 452, precisely, near the fourth cutportion 452. The pants 600 further include a fifth detachable member 463provided near the fourth cut portion 452 and coupled to both the thirdand fourth detachable members 461 and 462. The third, fourth, and fifthdetachable members 461, 462, and 463 form a set, and they are structuredin the form of hooks and hook eyes so that they can be repeatedlycoupled to and decoupled from each other.

FIGS. 7A and 7B show the detailed structure of pants for a surgerypatient according to a seventh embodiment.

As shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B, the pants 700 according to the seventhembodiment include a body 70 comprised of a front part 710, a rear part720, and a crotch part 730. The pants 700 further include waist fixingmembers 741 and 742, which fix the body 70 to the patient's waist.

The waist fixing member 741 of the front part 710 and the waist fixingmember 742 of the rear part 720 are in a form of hoop and loop tapes.Alternatively, the waist fixing member 741 of the front part 710 and thewaist fixing member 742 of the rear part 720 may be in a form ofstrings, buttons and button-holes, or hooks and hook eyes.

The pants 700 according to the seventh embodiment have a “U”-shaped cutportion 750 at the crotch part 730 in order to allow the Foley catheterto be placed there. The “U”-shaped cut portion 750 is comprised of afifth cut portion 751 extending in a direction from the front part 710to the rear part 720 and a sixth cut portion 752 and a seventh cutportion 753 extending in a direction from one side to the center of thecrotch part 730.

A sixth detachable member 754 and a seventh detachable member 755 areprovided to the crotch part 730 at a position near the sixth cut portion752 and the seventh cut portion 753. The sixth detachable member 754 andthe seventh detachable member 755 can be attached to and detached fromthe crotch part 730 of the pants 700. An eighth detachable member 756and a ninth detachable member 757 are provided near the sixth cutportion 752 and the seventh cut portion 754 so as to be coupled to thesixth detachable member 754 and the seventh detachable member 755,respectively. The sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth detachable members754m 755, 756, 757 form a set, and are in a form of hoop and loop tapesso that they can be repeatedly attached to and detached from each othermany times.

As described above, the pants 700 according to the seventh embodimenthave the “U” shaped cut portion 750, comprised of the sixth cut portion752 and the seventh cut portion 753. Accordingly, it is possible toprevent the patient's genital organ from being visible and freely placethe Foley catheter at any place regardless of the patients' sex, i.e.regardless of the difference in the position of the genital organs ofthe patients.

Other elements and operations are the same as in the first embodiment,except for the above-mentioned elements and operations.

The pants can be made of unwoven fabric, paper, or cotton fabrics.

For female patients, it is preferable that disposable brassieres and thepants according to the invention be used together in order to preventthe patients from being embarrassed.

According to the above-embodiments, the invention provides pants havingvarious shapes of cut portions at the location where the Foley catheteris to be connected to the patient's genital organ. By the use of thepants according to the invention, it is convention to connect a tube ofthe Foley catheter to the patient's genital organ regardless of theposition of the patients' genital organs. Accordingly, the pants can beeasily changed during an operation, and thus it is possible to preventpatients from being embarrassed or feeling shame.

The above-mentioned embodiment of the present invention has beendescribed for illustrative purposes, and those skilled in the art willappreciate that various modifications, additions and substitutions arepossible, without departing from the scope and spirit of the inventionas disclosed in the accompanying claims.

1. Pants for a surgery patient, comprising: a body, including a front part, a rear part, and a crotch part; and waist fixing members provided to the front part and the rear part, respectively, the waist fixing members fixing the body to a patient's body, wherein the crotch part has a cut portion having a reversed “L” shape and including a first cut portion extending in a direction from the front part to the rear part and a second cut portion extending in a direction from a side to a center portion thereof.
 2. The pants for a surgery patient according to claim 1, further comprising a first detachable member which can be attached to and detached from the body and is provided near the second cut portion of the cut portion having a reversed “L” shape, and a second detachable member which can be coupled to the first detachable member and is provided near the second cut portion.
 3. The pants for a surgery patient according to claim 1, wherein the first and second detachable members are a hoop and a loop tape, respectively.
 4. The pants for a surgery patient according to claim 1, wherein the first and second detachable members are a button and a button-hole, respectively.
 5. The pants for a surgery patient according to claim 1, wherein the first and second detachable members are a hook and a hook eye, respectively.
 6. Pants for a surgery patient, comprising: a body, including a front part, a rear part, and a crotch part; and a waist fixing member for fixing the body to a patient's waist, wherein the crotch part has a cut portion having a T” shape and including a third cut portion extending in a direction from the front part to the rear part and a fourth cut portion extending in a side-to-side direction thereof.
 7. The pants for a surgery patient according to claim 6, further comprising a third detachable member which can be attached to and detached from the body and which is provided to a left side portion of the crotch part, precisely, near the fourth cut portion, a fourth detachable member which can be attached to and detached from the body and which is provided to a right side portion of the crotch part, precisely, near the fourth cut portion, and a fifth detachable member provided near the fourth cut portion and coupled to both the third detachable member and the fourth detachable member.
 8. The pants for a surgery patient according to claim 6, wherein the third detachable member, the fourth detachable member, and the fifth detachable member are in a form of a combination of hoop and loop tapes.
 9. The pants for a surgery patient according to claim 6, wherein the third detachable member, the fourth detachable member, and the fifth detachable member are in a form of a combination of buttons and button-holes.
 10. The pants for a surgery patient according to claim 6, wherein the third detachable member, the fourth detachable member, and the fifth detachable member are in a form of a combination of hooks and hook eyes.
 11. Pants for a surgery patient, comprising: a body including a front part, a rear part, and a crotch part; and a waist fixing member for fixing the body to a patient's waist, wherein the crotch part has a cut portion having a “U” shape and including a fifth cut portion extending in a direction from the front part to the rear part and a sixth cut portion and a seventh cut portion extending from a side to a center portion thereof.
 12. The pants for a surgery patient according to claim 11, further comprising a sixth detachable member and a seventh detachable member which can be attached to and detached from the crotch part near the sixth cut portion and the seventh cut portion, respectively, and an eighth detachable member and a ninth detachable member coupled to the sixth detachable member and the seventh detachable member, respectively.
 13. The pants for a surgery patient according to claim 11, wherein the seventh detachable member, the eighth detachable member, and the ninth detachable member are in a form of a combination of hoop and loop tapes.
 14. The pants for a surgery patient according to claim 11, wherein the seventh detachable member, the eighth detachable member, and the ninth detachable member are in a form of a combination of buttons and button-holes.
 15. The pants for a surgery patient according to claim 11, wherein the seventh detachable member, the eighth detachable member, and the ninth detachable member are in a form of a combination of hooks and hook eyes. 